FAVOURITE MOVIES

TOP 10(in no particular order)

★ The Year My Voice Broke (directed by John Duigan, 1988). Coming of age story set in rural Australia, circa 1962. Infused with bittersweet nostalgia. It kills me everytime. The sequel, Flirting, is also brilliant.

★ Ghost World (directed by Terry Zwigoff, 2001). Went to see this because of a favourable five line review but its utter greatness still caught me off guard.

★ Monsieur Lazhar (directed by Philippe Falardeau, 2011). If you love character driven films as much as I do, don't miss this French Canadian offering. The kids' performances were stunning in both their depth and restraint. There's not one false note in this emotionally compelling drama.

★ Children of Men (directed by Alfonso Cuarón, 2006). Set in the near future (2027) during a time of global infertility which has rendered the world hopeless, Children of Men documents decline, chaos, despair—and hope. One of the most potent films I've ever seen.

★ Almost Famous (directed by Cameron Crowe, 2000). I grinned all the way through this at the theatre. Great Cameron Crowe commentary on the DVD.

★ Dunkirk (directed by Christopher Nolan, 2017). A staggering, mesmerizing depiction of the 1940 evacuation of over 300,000 endangered Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France. Christopher Nolan no doubt has decades of films ahead of him, but this is the achievement of a lifetime.

★ Withnail and I (directed by Bruce Robinson, 1987). Two unemployed British actors suffer through a country vacation. Hilarious and bleak in equal proportions.

Parminder Nagra and Jonathan Rhys Meyer in Bend it like Beckham

AND MORE..

28 Days Later | A Star is Born (2018) | About a Boy | The Abyss | Adventureland | After Hours | Alfie (1966) | Arrival (2016, director Denis Villeneuve) | Beautiful Girls | Before Sunrise | Before Sunset | Bend it like Beckham | Biloxi Blues | Blow-Up | Bowling for Columbine | Boyhood | Bringing Up Baby | Chilly Scenes of Winter | The Commitments | The Conjuring 2 | Crimson Peak | Dawn of the Dead (1978) | Desperately Seeking Susan | Do the Right Thing | Dominick and Eugene | Doubt | Earth (1998, director Deepa Mehta) | The Empire Strikes Back | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Eve's Bayou | The Exorcist | Falling Down | The Family Stone | Gattaca | Girl, Interrupted | Gone With the Wind | Grand Canyon | Groundhog Day | Half Nelson | A Hard Day's Night | Help | Hereafter | High Fidelity | Holiday (1938, director George Cukor) | The Hours | In America | Interstellar | Into the West | It's A Wonderful Life | Jacob's Ladder | La Jetée | Just Before Losing Everything (French title Avant Que De Tout Perdre) | Last Chance Harvey | Life is Beautiful | Logan's Run | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Lost in Translation | Manchester by the Sea | Manhattan | Manhattan Murder Mystery | Manhunter | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Miller's Crossing | Miracle Mile | The Mothman Prophecies | Mustang | My Brilliant Career | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | Notting Hill | Once | On the Beach | One True Thing | Only Angels Have Wings | Only Lovers Left Alive | Open City | The Philadelphia Story | Planet of the Apes (1968) | Platoon | Pride and Prejudice (2005) | Proof (1991, director Jocelyn Moorhouse) | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Safety Not Guaranteed | Silver Linings Playbook | Sing Street | Snowpiercer | Stardust | Summer (French title Le Rayon Vert, 1986) | Swimming to Cambodia | The Terminator | That'll Be The Day | This Is Spinal Tap | To Have and Have Not | Truly, Madly, Deeply | The Way We Were | When Harry Met Sally | Wonder Boys | X-Men: Days of Future Past | The World According to Garp | The Year of Living Dangerously
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Canadian & Irish novelist of character-driven fiction from horror to sci-fi to slice-of-life. Also writes under the name Cara Martin. Film school grad. Time traveller. Billy Bragg fan. Living with chronic illness. True believer in the John Lennon quote, “If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”